Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Hangs With GOP Big Shots At Border Rally | Talking Points Memo

The founder of the Oath Keepers popped up at a rally near the U.S.-Mexico border last week, sharing the roster with Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West and other Republican politicians. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1367622

You had me at “Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Hangs…”

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That’s a not very veiled threat of violence and insurrection.

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Do any of these “patriots” pay their taxes?

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Six degrees of insurrection.

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Yeah, I agree…

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“Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Hangs…”

Yes? Yes?? YES???

“… With GOP Big Shots At Border Rally.”

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I didn’t know anyone said “Chicom” anymore. How John Birch of him.

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Hey gramps what’s a communist?

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Ruski muppet uses “Chicom puppet” in a sentence. It’s throwback Thursday!

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I guess now you need to travel to Outback TX to find people that don’t immediately hate the Oafkeepers, or the disinformation they peddle. Why is this a-hole still walking the streets after Jan. 6, 2021?

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Because he sat back and had other people do the dirty work while he texted about QRFs and such.

Odds are that he’s an informant in exchange for getting out of sedition charges for planning.

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Lock. The. Seditionist. MOFO. Up!

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" … because he sat back and had other people do the dirty work while he texted about QRFs and such."

Isn’t that generally referred to as “conspiracy” in charging documents?

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He is making a common mistake: there are a lot of stupid people, many more than most of us imagine (1st Law), but only a minority are likely stupid in the way he is and most of those will at some point demonstrate the primary signature of stupidity: screwing up.

The problem for us is that the process of screwing up can be incredibly damaging to others and civil society generally which is why the stupid must be actively contested and ameliorated, it cannot safely be ignored.

“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.” —John Steinbeck

“You can’t fix stupid; stupid is forever.” —Ron White

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Did all the migrant children confuse them and their machine guns for the welcome wagon?

Was FBI Director Christopher Wray part of the Ted Cruz led Patriots (insurrectionist Confederates) sightseeing along the border in military patrol boats!

“If we actually intended to take over the Capitol, we’d have taken it, and we’d have brought guns,” Rhodes said.

An interesting statement, given that the criminal conspiracy charges he is likely end up facing appear to include a group of armed Oathkeepers just outside the city who were designated as a “quick reaction force.”

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Rhodes said the Oath Keepers were the “tip of an iceberg.”

“They don’t understand that below the surface, there’s a great mass of other patriots, other veterans, and current-serving, who feel exactly the same way,” he concluded. “And they will never find out who they are until it’s too late. Hooah!”

Always. This is what they always say. It’s not just us eleven rag-tag idiots marching around. There’s a WHOLE ARMY that you don’t see behind us.

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I was expecting to read that he hangs with Matt Gaetz. It’s been almost two hours since the last Gaetz story.

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They were given a great country by those who stopped the Axis Powers in WWII.

And this is their response.

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